Can I work for a bad company and still be a good person?

Re:Can I work for a bad company and still be a good person? by xwdv on Monday November 23, 2020 @02:02PM (#25190308)

Working for a good company doesn’t make you a good person. So why should working for a bad company make you a bad one?

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Re:Can I work for a bad company and still be a good person? by ASalazarMX on Monday November 23, 2020 @02:10PM (#25190424)

Is it?

If you're a bad person working for the Red Cross, and you saved the lives of strangers, that makes you less bad.

If you're a good person working for a company that manufactures antipersonnel mines, that makes you less good.

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Re:Can I work for a bad company and still be a good person? by dmit on Monday November 23, 2020 @02:27PM (#25190634)

Working for a company that creates life-saving vaccines, or builds homes for underprivileged people, or increases yields of crops to match the demands of a growing population doesn't make you a good person? Well, how high is your threshold then?

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Re:Can I work for a bad company and still be a good person? by trackone on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @11:09AM (#25199688)

I don't think that the work you do should be the only thing that defines what type of person you are. Someone could work at those types of companies and be a serial killer in their free time.

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Re:Can I work for a bad company and still be a good person? by gegtik on Monday November 23, 2020 @02:10PM (#25190422)

I agree with you, if you're working for a bad company and you're actively sabotaging them then the OP's observation does not hold.

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